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de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

From:  Theo de Raadt <deraadt-AT-openbsd.org>
To:  announce-AT-openbsd.org
Subject:  It was twenty years ago you see...
Date:  Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:31:29 -0600
Message-ID:  <25702.1445149889@cvs.openbsd.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

OpenBSD's source tree just turned 20 years old.

I recall the import taking about 3 hours on an EISA-bus 486 with two
ESDI drives.  There was an import attempt a few days earlier, but it
failed due to insufficient space.  It took some time to repartition
the machine.

It wasn't terribly long before David Miller, Chuck Cranor and Niklas
Hallqvist were commiting... then more people showed up.

The first developments were improvements to 32-bit sparc.

Chuck and I also worked on setting up the first 'anoncvs' to make sure
noone was ever cut out from 'the language of diffs' again.  I guess
that was the precursor for the github concept these days :-).  People
forget, but even FSF was a walled garden at the time -- throwing tar
files with vague logs over the wall every couple months.

I was lucky to have one of the few 64Kbit ISDN links in town,
otherwise this would not have happened.  My desktop was a Sparcstation
10; the third machine I had was a very slow 386.

The project is now at:

~322,000 commits
~44 commits/day average
~356 hackers through the years

--

On this day, is my pleasure to give you a song written for the
release by Todd Miller.

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#58a

It was twenty years ago you see
Theo opened a cvs tree
Made commits to many a file
Joined by others in a very short while

Take a moment to view
The source of all this code
The openbsd cvs repo...

We're the openssh repository
We hope you will enjoy the code
The openntpd repository
But that's not all that's here oh no...
The mandoc 'pository, smtpd 'tory
The libressl repo too

It's wonderful to see the code
Re-used far and wide
The license is so liberal
We'd love for you to code with us
We'd love for you to code...

I don't really want to have to go
But it's hackathon time and so
The coder will commit the code
That he wants all of you to load

So let me introduce to you the one and only Puffy Fish
And the openbsd cvs repo...

B... S... D...

--

(The 5.8 release will be announced and released in a few hours.)





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de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 18, 2015 15:56 UTC (Sun) by BostonEnginerd (guest, #102233) [Link]

Congratulations to the OpenBSD team for another release!

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 19, 2015 12:23 UTC (Mon) by dakas (guest, #88146) [Link]

It was twenty years ago you see
that de Raadt started OpenBSD.
They've been going in and out of style
but they guaranteed to close a file.

So may I introduce to you...

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 20, 2015 9:19 UTC (Tue) by dakas (guest, #88146) [Link]

Oh. Oops. Should have read the full article before coming up with a not-so-original comment.

This raises the point of how much sense it makes to create a whole song for celebrating the release of free software that you are not even allowed to sing without paying royalties...

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 20, 2015 21:13 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Mind giving some context ? what is the tune of the song ?

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 21, 2015 0:32 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", from the album of the same title by The Beatles.

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 21, 2015 13:24 UTC (Wed) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link]

You'ld be OK singing it.. firstly your words are creatively different, second what's the chances of coders actually hitting all the right notes and not changing the tune?

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 29, 2015 11:30 UTC (Thu) by dakas (guest, #88146) [Link]

Well, my main coding these days is on the music typesetter "LilyPond". And, uh, Sgt Peppers? You could sing the first four lines copyright-relevantly recognizably on a single note.

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 19, 2015 17:54 UTC (Mon) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]

Netcraft has not confirmed yet that OpenBSD is still alive

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 21, 2015 7:42 UTC (Wed) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

:-)

Perhaps it's time to turn this meme inside-out and to chant "OpenBSD confirms: Netcraft is dead".

de Raadt: It was twenty years ago you see...

Posted Oct 21, 2015 8:29 UTC (Wed) by ldo (guest, #40946) [Link]

...and they are still doing their version control in CVS.

Bless.


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